About

Who am I?

Professionally, I am an experienced infrastructure architect somewhere in the southwest United States. I’ve worked in industries from broadcast to retail and deployed, run and troubleshot the usual mainstream platforms to esoteric legacy kit forgotten deep within the DC. A full-stack cloud engineer1 who’s done things with Windows and Active Directory he’d rather forget, and things with Linux others probably want to forget.

Outside of work I’m a dad, mechanic of both cars and bicycles, mountain biker and pretending to be whatever trade is needed to work on the house at that particular moment.

Why did I create this site?

I’m not entirely sure. Given that this site isn’t exactly going to be topping the charts of any web site ranking the odds of it being read by anyone but me and my mum is vanishingly small.

However my ADD loves to grab an idea and work on it, and this gives me an outlet to take that idea and develop it into something external and not bore my wife by talking to her about something she doesn’t know or care about for some of the most boring 20 minutes of her life.

Of course, some of my ramblings may contain kernels of useful information, and I hope that someone out there finds something in here that makes their day a little easier.

There’s no particular theme, or release schedule for articles, so if you feel like keeping tabs you can use the RSS feed in the top right. It’s definitely a work in progress especially right now so expect the whole thing to be in flux for a while.

  1. If you’re not running your on-premise platforms like a cloud, you probably need to consider it, and whilst it might make some cloud evangelists unhappy, the fundamentals are the same between the two. The biggest difference is on-prem means doing your own integrations rather than relying on the cloud provider to charge you for theirs. ↩︎